Master Arts Plastiques — ARTS PLASTIQUES

This master's program in Arts Plastiques is offered by Université de Picardie Jules-Verne in Amiens, France, over two years of study taught in French, starting in September, with yearly tuition of 250 EUR. Arts Plastiques, or visual and plastic arts, is a discipline covering the study and practice of visual creation across a range of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and installation, combined with the study of art history and critical theory. Students in a general arts plastiques program typically develop their own studio practice across one or more media, while also studying the history of art movements, contemporary art theory, and critical approaches to analyzing and discussing visual work. Coursework often includes individual and collaborative studio projects, exhibitions of student work, seminars on contemporary art practice, and theoretical study of how visual art has evolved and how it is interpreted and situated within broader cultural and intellectual contexts. Because a plastic arts education combines hands-on creative work with academic study, students also learn to articulate and defend their own artistic choices, situating their practice in relation to historical and contemporary reference points. Graduates of arts plastiques programs typically pursue careers as practicing artists, roles within galleries, cultural institutions and arts administration, teaching positions, or work in fields adjacent to the visual arts such as curation and art criticism. The program is designed to develop both technical and conceptual skills relevant to a career grounded in visual creative practice, and instruction is delivered entirely in French over the two-year period.